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The city of Houston was founded by land investors on August 30, 1836, at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou (a point now known as Allen's Landing) and incorporated as a city on June 5, 1837. Though primarily in Harris County, small portions of the city extend into Fort Bend and Montgomery counties, bordering other principal communities of Greater Houston such as Sugar Land and The Woodlands. It is the largest city in the United States by total area, whose government is not consolidated with a county, parish, or borough.
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Ĭomprising a total area of 637.4 square miles (1,651 km 2), Houston is the ninth-most expansive city in the United States (including consolidated city-counties). Houston is the southeast anchor of the greater megaregion known as the Texas Triangle. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat and largest city of Harris County and the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second-most populous in Texas ( Dallas–Fort Worth is larger). Houston ( / ˈ h juː s t ən/ ( listen) HEW-stən) is the most populous city in Texas, fourth-most populous city in the United States, most populous city in the Southern United States, as well as the sixth-most populous in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in 2020. George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), William P.